REVISED: May 24, 2019 Curriculum Vitae
KEVIN JAMES CHRISTIANO Associate Professor of Sociology University of Notre Dame
Office Residence
Department of Sociology 1940 Bridgeview Trail, 4060 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls Apartment A University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana 46637-5416 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-7000 U. S. A. U. S. A. (574) 272-7126 (574) 631-7371 or 631-6463 (messages) (574) 631-9238 (FAX) e-mail:
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1983 Princeton University Department of Sociology
M.A. 1980 Princeton University Department of Sociology
B.A., with 1977 College of William and Mary Highest Concentration (Major): Sociology Honors Sequence (Minor): French Literature
AREAS Sociology of Religion
Urban Social History
Society and Politics of Québec and Canada
Sociology of Culture
Labor Movements and Their Leaders
Classical Social Thought
Social Stratification
LANGUAGES
English (native speaker); French (good listening comprehension and reading skills, fair at speaking and writing); Latin.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Appointment History
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (1989 - ):
Affliated Faculty Member, Monsignor George G. Higgins Labor Studies Program, Center for Social Concerns (2011 - ); Chairperson, Department of Sociology (1992-1994); Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology (1989-1992); Visiting Scholar, Canadian Studies Center / Centre d'études canadiennes, Duke University (Spring, 1995); and Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Duke University (Fall, 1994).
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (1983-1989):
Senior Undergraduate Advisor [Director of Undergraduate Studies], Department of Sociology(1987-1989); and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University (Fall, 1986; and Spring, 1987).
Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University (Spring, 1982).
Assistant in Instruction (Sociology), Princeton University (Fall, 1979; and Spring, 1980).
Teaching Record
At the University of Notre Dame, have taught,
at the undergraduate level:
Freshman Studies 180: "Church, State, and Society in America," Freshman Studies 180: "'America's Attic' -- The Society and Culture of Canada," Social Science University Seminar 180E (13181): "The Sociological Imagination,"
Sociology 102: "Introduction to Sociology," Sociology 102 (10002, 20002): "Understanding Societies," Sociology 10672 (20672): "Deities, Denominations, and Diversity: Sociology of Religious Life,"
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Sociology 302: "Methods of Research," Sociology 304: "Principles of Sociology," Sociology 30900: "Foundations of Sociological Theory," Sociology 315: "Class, Status, and Power," Sociology 372: "Religion in American Society," Sociology 372 (30672): "Religion and Social Life,"
Sociology 43600: "Religion in Classical Sociological Theory," Sociology 43600: "Society and Spirit: Religion in Classical Social Thought," Sociology 48009: "Sociology Honors Capstone Project," Sociology 485: "Sociology of Religion, I," and Sociology 495: "Independent Study"; and,
at the graduate level:
Sociology 551 (63651): "Sociology of Religion, I," Sociology 552: "Sociology of Religion, II," Sociology 53911 (63911): "Classical Social Theory,"
Sociology 652 (73652): "Sociology of Religion, II," Sociology 653, 697 (76097): Directed Readings -- "Congregational Studies," -- "Methods of Teaching," -- "Qualitative Research Methods," -- "Religion and New Immigrants," -- "Religion in Post-Soviet Europe," and -- "Sociology of Religion,"
Sociology 701 (73081): "Teaching Seminar," and Sociology 702: "Teaching Practicum."
At Princeton University, assisted in,
at the undergraduate level:
Sociology 201: "Human Society, Continuity and Crisis." Supervisor: Professor Marvin Bressler
Sociology 212: "Social Structure, Culture, and Personality." Supervisor: Professor Howard F. Taylor
Sociology 319: "Large-Scale Organizations, Bureaucracy, and the Corporation." Supervisor: Professor John Joseph Burns
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AWARDS and HONORS
J. Milton Yinger Lifetime Award for a Distinguished Career in Sociology, conferred by the North Central Sociological Association (presented March 29, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio):
According to the Association, "The principal criterion for this award is an extraordinary career in some activity that has furthered the work of sociology as a discipline. A person might be nominated for exemplary work in any one of the areas, or for uncommon contributions in two or more of these areas: * Scholarly Contributions,. . . * Public or Applied Sociology,. . . * Sociological Teaching and Learning, . . . and * Exemplary Service Within the Region" (which consists of eastern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the Canadian province of Ontario).
Prix du Québec, conferred by the Ministère des Relations inter- nationales et de la Francophonie of the Gouvernement du Québec in association with the American Council for Québec Studies (presented November 4, 2016, in Portland, Maine):
The Prix du Québec has been awarded at two-year intervals since 1994 to a U.S.-based humanist or social scientist to recognize a career of distinguished academic contributions to the study of Québec and francophone North America, and to acknowledge a record of service to fellow scholars in the field.
Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, The Graduate School, Princeton University (1980-1981):
One of seven students from across the University's 52 graduate departments and programs to be so recognized for "outstanding performance and professional promise."
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship in Sociology (1977-1980):
One of eleven predoctoral students of sociology in the United States selected in 1977 for three years of support by NSF.
Highest Honors in Sociology, College of William and Mary (1977):
One of nine William and Mary seniors in 1977 to receive the bachelor's degree with highest honors.
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Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society (1976).
GRANTS
Supplemental Research and Teaching Grant, Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (March 22, 2002):
For "faculty members . . . who had extraordinary years in terms of scholarship or teaching or both; colleagues who had provided exemplary service to their department, the College, or the University; or colleagues whose research projects would greatly benefit from additional research support."
Research Materials Grant, Special Project Initiatives, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (January 26, 1993):
Awarded a grant to help defray the expense of reproducing archival photographs for use as illustrations in a biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (with William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto). Illus.
* First Paperback Text Edition; Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press; Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2001 [© 2002]. Pp. xiv + 365. [ISBN-10 0-7591-0035-7; ISBN-13 978-0- 7591-0035-0].
". . . this excellent book may well be the best text on the sociology of religion in print." -- Lutz F. Kaelber (Univer- sity of Vermont) in Teaching Sociology (October, 2002).
* Second Paperback Text Edition (Revised and Expanded); Lanham, Md., and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. Pp. xiv + 374. [ISBN-10 0-7425-6111-9; ISBN-13 978-0- 7425-6111-3].
". . . the new edition is a worthwhile improvement." -- R. Stephen Warner (University of Illinois at Chicago) in the Review of Religious Research (June, 2010).
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* Third Text Edition (Revised and Expanded); Lanham, Md., and Boulder, Colo.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2015 [© 2016]. Pp. x + 399. [ISBN-13 978-1-4422-1691-4 (Cloth); 978-1-4422-1692-1 (Paper); 978-1-4422-1693-8 (e-book)].
"The third edition is livelier: . . . recent controver- sies are well-covered, . . . and the final section explores neopaganism, gods and goddesses." -- Abby Day (University of London [U.K.]) in Religion (January, 2019).
See:
In its first six years of publication, adopted as a course text at, among other institutions:
The University of Alabama at Huntsville, the University of Arizona (Tucson), Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachu- setts), The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), the University of California at Berkeley, The College of Charleston (South Carolina), Colorado College (Colorado Springs), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), Kultur- wissenschaftliche Fakultät of the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt [Oder] (Germany), the University of Idaho (Moscow), the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, North Carolina State University (Raleigh), Portland (Oregon) State University, Rice University (Houston, Texas), St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the University of Toronto at Scarborough (Ontario, Canada), and Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan).
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Reason Before Passion. Canadian Biography Series. Illus.
* Trade Paperback Edition; Toronto and Montréal: ECW Press Limited, 1994. Pp. 165. [ISBN-10 1-55022-188-4; ISBN-13 978- 1-55022-188-6].
* Large-Print Paperback Edition; Toronto and Montréal: ECW Press Limited, 1995. Pp. 220. [ISBN-10 1-55022-241-4; ISBN-13 978- 1-55022-241-8].
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A "Canadian classic" -- Katherine Miller (National Library of Canada) in National Library News [Ottawa, Ontario] (July / August, 1996).
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Selected by an outside jury of publishers and librarians for reprinting in a large-type format by ECW Press through the Large Print Publishing Program of the National Library of Canada / Programme d'aide à l'édition d'écrits en gros caractères de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995.
A portion of the "Chronology" (pp. 142-149) reprinted as pp. 12-13 in Trudeau: The Life, Times, and Passing of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, introduced by Roy MacGregor. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000.
Adopted as a course text in Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York).
Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890-1906.
* Clothbound Edition; Cambridge, England, and New York: Cam- bridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii + 239. [ISBN-10 0- 521-34145-0; ISBN-13 978-0-521-34145-5].
* Paperback Reprint Edition; Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 239. [ISBN-10 0-521-04670-X; ISBN-13 978-0-521-04670-1].
* e-book Edition (Complete Electronic Text); Cambridge, England: Cambridge Books Online, 2009. Pp. xvii + 239. [ISBN-13 978- 0-511-52070-9].
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"Christiano has published a model for the analytic sociologi- cal use of census data." -- Samuel Z. Klausner (University of Pennsylvania) in Contemporary Sociology (November, 1988).
A "sophisticated stud[y] . . . Kevin Christiano's fine book . . . link[s] complex statistical analysis to supple sociolog- ical theorizing." -- Jon Butler (Yale University) in the American Historical Review (February, 1994).
Portions reproduced for course use at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Chapter 1, "'As Slavery Never Did': American Religion and the Rise of the City" (pp. 1-21), reprinted for course use at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
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Special Edition / Numéro spéciale
"Regulating Religion in Québec" / « La régulation du religieux au Québec » [in French and English], compiled by Martin Geoffroy and Solange Lefebvre (edited with Jane M. Moss and Roseanna L. Dufault). Québec Studies 52 (Fall, 2011 / Winter, 2012). Orono, Me.: American Council for Québec Studies, 2011. Pp. 3-121. [ISSN 0737-3759; e-ISSN 9739-3759].
Articles and Chapters
"Religious Liberty in Official Catholic Parlance: A Two-Nation Comparison." Chapter in Les catholicismes devant les nouvelles formes de régulation de l'espace public: Portraits comparatifs (Europe / Amériques) [Catholicisms in the Context of New Forms in the Regulation of Public Space: A Comparative Overview (Europe / The Americas)], edited by Philippe Portier and É.-Martin Meunier. Collection: « 21e - Société, histoire et cultures ». Ottawa, Ont.: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2020; Rennes, France: Les Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020.
"Studying the Religions of Québec: Description or Distortion from an American Angle?" Chapter in Étudier la religion au Québec: Regards d'ici et d'ailleurs [Studying Religion in Québec: Perspec- tives from Here and from Elsewhere], edited by Jean-François Laniel, David Koussens, and Catherine Foisy. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2020; Rennes, France: Les Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020.
"European Principles and Canadian Practices: Developing Secular Contexts for Religious Diversity" [Revised and updated for book publication]. Pp. 45-62 in Francisco Colom González and Gianni D'Amato (eds.), Multireligious Society: Dealing with Religious Diversity in Theory and Practice. London, England, and New York: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group, Limited, 2016 [© 2017].
"Solidarity and Spirit: The Rough-and-Tumble Faith of Ralph Chaplin." Cover essay for American Catholic Studies: Journal of the American Catholic Historical Society 124 (Winter, 2013): 79-95.
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"Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition." Pp. vii-xxv in Andrew M. Greeley, with William Van Cleve and Grace Ann Carroll, The Changing Catholic College. NORC: National Opinion Research Center Monographs in Social Research, No. 13 (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1967). Reprint Edition. New Brunswick, N.J.: AldineTransaction Books, Transaction Publishers, 2013; London, England, and New York: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group, Limited, 2017.
"Originally published in 1967, this classic discussion of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States has been republished with a comprehensive new introduction by Kevin Christiano . . . [that] discusses the significant changes that have taken place in the past half century." -- International Higher Education (Spring, 2014).
"European Principles and Canadian Practices: Developing Secular Contexts for Religious Diversity." RECODE: REsponding to COmplex Diversity in Europe and Canada [A Project of the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France]. Online Working Paper No. 15. Section 3 -- Religions in the Public Sphere: Accommodating Religious Diversity in the Post-Secular Era; Workshop 2 -- The Public Management of Religion: From State-Building to New Forms of Minorities' Mobilization. RECODE Working Paper Series. Helsinki, Finland: RECODE Research Networking Programme, 2013. [Published online: July, 2013; ii + 15 pp.]
"Christianity in North America: Changes and Challenges in a Land of Promise." Pp. 139-153 in Charles E. Farhadian (ed.), Introducing World Christianity. Oxford, England, and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.
"Two chapters that stand out are 'Middle Eastern and North African Christianity,' by Heather Sharkey, and 'Chris- tianity in North America: Changes and Challenges in a Land of Promise,' by Kevin Christiano. . . . Christiano's sensitivity to different conceptions of Christianity in the United States and Canada is impressive." -- Rodney L. Petersen (Boston University) in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (January, 2013).
This chapter has been assigned as course reading in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro).
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"Clio Goes to Church -- Again: Places for History in the Sociology of Religion." Pp. 9-45 in Barbara Jones Denison (ed.), History, Time, Meaning, and Memory: Ideas for the Sociology of Religion. Religion and the Social Order, Volume 20. Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: E. J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2011.
". . . Christiano examines how sociologists create and value knowledge, and what gaps result. He argues that our quest for universalistic social theory has too often led sociologists to gloss over the specifics of time, place, context, and contin- gency. He urges more attention to particulars, and his commentary on the history of sociological research provides an enlightening case in point." -- Susanne C. Monahan (Montana State University) in Contemporary Sociology (January, 2014).
"Personal Liberty, Social Difference, and the Dynamics of Devotion: Voluntary Religion and State Regulation in the United States and Canada." Pp. 99-118 in Jürgen Gebhardt (ed.), Religious Cultures -- Communities of Belief [Religionskulturen -- Glaubensgemein- schaften]. Publications of the Bavarian-American Academy, Volume 10 [Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie, Band 10]. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009.
"Clio Goes to Church: Revisiting and Revitalizing Historical Thinking in the Sociology of Religion." Presidential Address to the Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2006. Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 69 (Spring, 2008): 1-28.
This address was the stimulus for a later panel discussion, "Clio Goes to Church (Again): History, Time, Meaning, and Memory in the Sociology of Religion," at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Boston Park Plaza and Towers Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (July 31, 2008).
"The Trajectory of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Quebec." Pp. 21-61 in Leslie Woodcock Tentler (ed.), The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism Since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007.
"In their respective pieces on Catholicism in Quebec Kevin J. Christiano and Michael Gauvreau raise penetrating questions about institutional Catholicism's own responsibility for the collapse of Catholic practice in French Canada." -- Oliver P. Rafferty (Sogang University [Korea]) in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (January, 2009).
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"I have to admit that it has been a long time since I read an edited work as stimulating as this one. The quality of the studies dealing with Québec, by Christiano, Gauvreau and Baum, lend to this rare comparative project an exceptional status, seeing that for once the language barrier has been overcome, in a publication where the treatments of the three national cases rely on a scholarly literature that is quite up-to-date" [translation from the French]. -- Louis Rousseau (Université du Québec à Montréal [Canada]) in the Canadian Historical Review (March, 2009).
"Church and State in Institutional Flux: Canada and the United States." Pp. 69-89 in David Lyon and Marguerite Van Die (eds.), Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
"Christiano points out one of the defining differences of Canada -- . . . there is nothing self-evident in Canada. The open fluidity, constant negotiation and regular threat of dismemberment provide a very different climate for politics in Canada . . . Again, strategic comparisons with the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe bring to life this analysis of the Canadian scene." -- Gary D. Bouma (Monash University [Australia]) in the Canadian Journal of Sociology Online (December, 2001).
"Conflict and Order in Roman Catholic Thought." Pp. 229-246 in Joseph B. Gittler (ed.), Ideas of Concord and Discord in Selected World Religions. Research in Human Social Conflict, Volume 2. Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press, Inc., 2000.
"Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept" (with William H. Swatos, Jr.). Introduction to Special Issue on "The Secularization Debate." Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 60 (Fall, 1999): 209-228.
Also published as pp. 1-20 in a collection of essays on secularization, The Secularization Debate, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr., and Daniel V. A. Olson. A Co-Publication with the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000.
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Translated into Turkish by Doç Dr. Ali Köse of the Ýlahiyat Fakültesi, Marmara Üniversitesi [Faculty of Theology, Uni- versity of Marmara (Turkey)] in Istanbul for inclusion as "Sekülerleºme Teorisi: Bir Kavramýn Serüveni" ["Secularization Theory: The Adventure of a Concept"], pp. 95-121 in a collec- tive volume, Sekülerizm Sorgulanýyor: 21. Yüzyýlda Dinin Gelecei [Secularization on Trial: The Future of Religion in the 21st Century], edited by Mustafa Armaan. Harbiye, Istanbul, Türkçe: Ufuk Kitaplarý, 2002.
Assigned in courses at American institutions such as Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), Georgia State University (Atlanta), Iowa State University (Ames), the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, and Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo).
Abroad, this essay has been used in classrooms at the University of Bristol and the University of Cambridge (Eng- land), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), the Geographisches Institut der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg [Department of Geography of the University of Heidelberg] (Germany), the Institutt for religionsvitenskap of the Universitetet I Tromsø (Norway), the Käytännöllisen Teologian, Helsingin Yliopisto [Department of Practical Theology of the University of Helsinki] (Finland), the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada), and the Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln [Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne] (Germany).
"Religion and the Family in Modern American Culture." Pp. 43-78 in Sharon K. Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst (eds.), Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies. Oxford, England, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 [© 2000].
"The book also benefits from exceptionally strong chapters focusing on various facets of the relationship between religion and the family . . . For example, in his chapter on the United States, Kevin Christiano offers an incisive account of the religious roots of familism in this nation, and a judicious overview of recent efforts on the part of Christian conservatives to promote the traditional family." -- W. Bradford Wilcox (University of Virginia) in Contemporary Sociology (March, 2003).
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Reproduced for course use at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), the University of California at Berkeley, the Univer- sity of Chicago (Illinois), Iowa State University (Ames), Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff).
"From TCA to Air Canada: The Political Patterns of a Future Prime Minister." The American Review of Canadian Studies 26 (Spring, 1996): 49-66.
"Religion Among Hispanics in the United States: Challenges to the Catholic Church." Special Issue on « La Religion aux États-Unis » ["Religion in the United States"]. Archives de sciences sociales des religions [Paris] 83 (juillet-septembre [July-September,] 1993): 53-65.
"Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered" (with Rodney Stark). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 31 (March, 1992): 62-75.
"The Church and the New Immigrants." Pp. 169-186 in Helen Rose Ebaugh (ed.), Vatican II and U. S. Catholicism. Religion and the Social Order, Volume 2. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, Inc., 1991.
"Some of the chapters present and organize a wealth of information in new, very effective ways (Christiano's chapter, on new Catholic immigrants, is particularly noteworthy in this regard)." -- Gene Burns (Princeton University) in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (March, 1993).
"Peter L. Berger's Invitation to Sociology: Twenty-Five Years of RSVPs." Teaching Sociology 18 (October, 1990): 503-509.
"Without a doubt, there is a long list of sociologists as pleased as I am to see Professor Christiano's address of Peter L. Berger's (1963) classic introduction to the discipline. . . . [He is one of those who] emerge from their narratives as exceptionally reflective instructors, committed to pedagogy not only as a technical matter but as a moral one as well. . . . This is a brave position indeed and I admire the courage Professor Christiano has displayed by presenting it. In doing so he has articulated a concern that, while probably shared by many teachers of sociology, is seldom expressed in public, let alone in print." -- Kenneth Stoddart (University of British Columbia [Canada]) in Teaching Sociology (October, 1990).
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"Knowing the Difference: A Response." Teaching Sociology 18 (October, 1990): 524-525.
"Federalism as a Canadian National Ideal: The Civic Rationalism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau." The Dalhousie Review [Halifax, Nova Scotia] 69 (Summer, 1989): 248-269.
Reproduced for course use at Acadia University (Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada), Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), and Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada).
"Religion and Radical Labor Unionism: American States in the 1920's." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27 (Septem- ber, 1988): 378-388.
"Teaching Social Stratification: Some Moral and Humanistic Concerns." Pp. 1-6 in Carol J. Auster (ed.), Syllabi and Instruc- tional Materials for Social Stratification. Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 1988.
"Christiano's thoughtful essay on moral and humanistic concerns in the teaching of stratification . . . poses the difficult problem of striking a balance between the two extremes of attempting to avoid moral questions in the study of stratification, on the one hand, and overemphasizing them, on the other." -- John Bellamy Foster (University of Oregon) in Teaching Sociology (October, 1989).
"Salaries and Race in Professional Baseball: Discrimination Ten Years Later." Sociology of Sport Journal 5 (June, 1988): 136-149.
Assigned for course use at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Pennsylvania).
"Church as a Family Surrogate: Another Look at Family Ties, Anomie, and Church Involvement." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 25 (September, 1986): 339-354.
"Salary Discrimination in Major League Baseball: The Effect of Race." Sociology of Sport Journal 3 (June, 1986): 144-153.
Reprinted for course use at the University of Delaware (Newark).
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"'Numbering Israel': The U. S. Census and Religious Organizations." Social Science History 8 (Fall, 1984): 341-370.
Reprinted for course use at Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati, Ohio).
"Religion and Bereavement: A Conceptual Framework" (with Robert Wuthnow and John Kuzloski). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 (December, 1980): 408-422.
Reprinted as pp. 245-262 in Robert L. Fulton and Robert Bendiksen (eds.), Death and Identity. Third Edition. Philadelphia: The Charles Press, Publishers, 1994.
"The Effects of Residential Migration on Church Attendance in the United States" (with Robert Wuthnow). Pp. 257-276 in Robert Wuthnow (ed.), The Religious Dimension: New Directions in Quantita- tive Research. New York: Academic Press, 1979.
"A second paper on a major (and wholly neglected) matter is a study by Robert Wuthnow and Kevin Christiano of the effects of geographic mobility on church attendance. It is amazing that there have not been dozens of studies of this matter." -- Rodney Stark (University of Washington) in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (June, 1980).
Chapters and Entries in Reference Works
"Social Control." Forthcoming entry to appear in Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds.), The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. Sage Knowledge [Sage Encyclopedias Series]. London, England: Sage Publications, Limited, 2020.
"Boundaries." Pp. 192-197 in Robert A. Segal and Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion. Volume 1. Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: E. J. Brill Academic Publish- ers, 2015. [Published online: August, 2015; 5 pp.]
"Trends in Religiosity and Religious Affiliation." Chapter for Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn (gen. eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Direc- tions. Hoboken, N.J., and Oxford, England: Wiley Online Library, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015. [Published online: May 15, 2015; 14 pp.]
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"Religions and Families in America: Historical Traditions and Present Positions." Pp. 804-824 in Stephen J. Stein (gen. ed.), The Cambridge History of Religions in America. Volume 1: Pre- Columbian Times to 1790. Cambridge Histories Series. Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
This work was recognized with the 2012 Award for Excellence in Reference Works and the 2012 Award for Multi-Volume Reference in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the PROSE Awards of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (February 7, 2013). It was also named in Brian E. Coutts and Cheryl La-Guardia, "Best Reference of 2012," Library Journal 138 (March 1, 2013): 28.
"Assessing Modernities: From 'Pre-' to 'Post-' to 'Ultra-.'" Pp. 39-56 in James A. Beckford and N. J. Demerath, III (eds.), The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Sage Handbooks Series. London, England, and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2007.
This volume was designated a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title (Sociology) by the editors of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 46 (January, 2009).
Translated into French by Pascal Blaise Beboua for inclusion as « De l'évaluation des modernités: De la "pré-" à la "post-" et à "l'ultra-modernité" » ["On Evaluating Modernities: From 'Pre-' to 'Post-' to 'Ultra-modernity'"], the opening chapter in a collective volume, L'Ultra-modernité: Penser la modernité avec Jean-Paul Willaime [Ultra-modernity: Thinking About the Modern with Jean-Paul Willaime], edited by É.-Martin Meunier and Beboua. Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 2020.
"Secularization." Pp. 536-538 in Austin Harrington, Barbara L. Marshall, and Hans-Peter Müller (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Oxford, England, and New York: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group, Limited, 2006.
"Religiosity, Sociology of." Pp. 13,115 - 13,119 in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (gen. eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Volume 19. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press; Elsevier Science, Limited, 2001.
"Barrett, Donald N. (1920-1987)." P. 42 in William H. Swatos, Jr. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press; Sage Publications, Inc., 1998.
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"Murray, Raymond W., C.S.C. (1893-1973)." P. 316 in William H. Swatos, Jr. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press; Sage Publications, Inc., 1998.
"Columbia Magazine." Pp. 177-185 in P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (eds.), Popular Religious Magazines of the United States. Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
"The Maryknoll Magazine." Pp. 324-331 in P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (eds.), Popular Religious Magazines of the United States. Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspa- pers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
"Catholicism and the Social Sciences." Pp. 276-277 in Richard P. McBrien (gen. ed.), The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995.
"The Electronic Church." P. 461 in Richard P. McBrien (gen. ed.), The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995.
"Contemporary Developments in American Religion." Pp. 1,526 - 1,555 in Godfrey Hodgson (ed.), The United States: A Handbook. Volume 3. Handbooks to the Modern World. New York and Oxford, England: Facts On File Publications, 1992.
Working Document
"A Just Wage Framework and Tool: Rooted in the Catholic Social Tradition" (with Daniel Graff and the Just Wage Working Group). Monsignor George G. Higgins Labor Studies Program, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame (June 12, 2018; 4 pp.).
A digital version may be found online at:
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Reports on Disciplines and the Profession
"External Review of the Northeast National Resource Center on Canada: A Consortium of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine at Orono and the Center for the Study of Canada / Institute on Québec Studies at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh." Prepared for the International Education Programs Service, Office of Post-Secondary Education, United States Department of Education (July 24 and August 26, 2009; 26 pp.).
"The State of Québec Studies at American Colleges and Universities: Four Basic Problems." The Future of Québec Studies in the United States: Enriching a Vibrant Community. Proceedings of an interna- tional colloquium at the Albert and Celia Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University (October, 2006; 18 pp.).
"Introduction and Overview" (with George Becker, Robert D. Crutchfield, Laurie Russell Hatch, Karyn A. Loscocco, and William G. Roy). Pp. 1-11 in Sub-Committee on Teacher Training, Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Sociology. Report of the Ad Hoc Graduate Education Committee. Washington, D.C.: American Sociolog- ical Association, 1996.
A summary is published also as the "1995 Report of the Ad Hoc Graduate Education Committee, Prepared by the Sub-Committee on Teacher Training." Pp. 4-12 in Kimberly A. Mahaffy (ed.), Preparing Graduate Students to Teach. Fourth Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Socio- logical Association, 1996.
"Report on the Training of Graduate Students as Teachers in Sociology at Vanderbilt University" (with George Becker). Pp. 55- 69 in Sub-Committee on Teacher Training, Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Sociology. Report of the Ad Hoc Graduate Education Committee. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 1996.
A condensed version appears also as pp. 30-38 in Kimberly A. Mahaffy (ed.), Preparing Graduate Students to Teach. Fourth Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 1996.
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Instructional Materials
"Religion and Social Life" Course Materials. Pp. 11-18 in Lutz F. Kaelber and Douglas E. Cowan (eds.), Teaching the Sociology of Religion: Syllabi and Instructional Materials. Fourth Edition. ASA [American Sociological Association] Resource Materials for Teaching. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 2004.
An electronic version of this contribution is available to subscribers from TRAILS, the American Sociological Associa- tion's "Teaching Resources And Innovations Library for Sociology." [Published online: April 26, 2010; 9 pp.]
"Teaching Seminar" Course Syllabus. Pp. 30-36 in Edward L. Kain, with Shannon Hart (eds.), Preparing Graduate Students to Teach: Syllabi and Related Materials from Graduate Courses on the Teaching of Sociology. Third Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 1990.
A revised version is reprinted as pp. 58-68 in Kimberly A. Mahaffy (ed.), Preparing Graduate Students to Teach. Fourth Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 1996.
"Class, Status, and Power" Course Materials. Pp. 39-55 in Carol J. Auster (ed.), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Social Stratification. Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association, 1988.
"Religion in American Society" Course Syllabus. Pp. 62-68 in Madeleine Adriance and Dallas A. Blanchard (eds.), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Religion. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association; in cooperation with the Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1987.
Reprinted as pp. 68-73 in Dallas A. Blanchard and Madeleine Adriance (eds.), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Religion. Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Teaching Resources Center, American Sociological Association; and the Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1991.
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Review Essay
"Ministers at Mid-Century: Canadian Politics and Politicians of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s" [Reviews of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism, by Stephen Azzi (McGill-Queen's University Press); Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator, edited by Norman Hillmer (McGill-Queen's University Press); Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau, by Gordon Robertson (University of Toronto Press); The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957, edited by Donald C. Story and R. Bruce Shepard. Series: CPP (Canadian Plains Proceedings), No. 30 (Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina; and Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan); and Mackenzie King and the Prairie West, by Robert A. Wardhaugh (University of Toronto Press)]. The American Review of Canadian Studies 34 (Summer, 2004): 349-362.
Reviews
Review of American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice, by Albert J. Raboteau (Princeton University Press). Politics, Religion and Ideology 20 (2019): in press.
Review of Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec, edited by Hillary Kaell. Series: Advancing Studies in Religion, No. 3 (McGill-Queen's University Press). Québec Studies 67 (Spring / Summer, 2019): 184-187.
Review of The Body or the Soul? Religion and Culture in a Quebec Parish, 1736-1901, by Frank A. Abbott. Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, No. 2.76 (McGill-Queen's University Press). Québec Studies 66 (Fall, 2018 / Winter, 2019): 171-173.
Review of Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secular- ism in Quebec, by Geneviève Zubrzycki (The University of Chicago Press). The Catholic Historical Review 104 (Autumn, 2018): 726- 728.
Review of Political Secularism, Religion, and the State: A Time Series Analysis of Worldwide Data, by Jonathan Fox. Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion, and Politics (Cambridge University Press). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 46 (January, 2017): 71-72.
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Compte rendu de Catholicisme et cultures: Regards croisés Québec- France, sous la direction de Solange Lefebvre, Céline Béraud et É.- Martin Meunier. Collection: « Sciences religieuses » (Les Presses de l'Université Laval [Québec]); Collection: « Sciences des religions » (Les Presses universitaires de Rennes [France]) [in French; translated from the English by Lauriane Guihard]. « Les terrains de la laïcité au Québec ». Recherches sociographiques [Québec] 57 (mai-décembre [May-December,] 2016): 610-612.
Review of Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology, by Gregory Baum (McGill-Queen's University Press). Québec Studies 61 (Spring / Summer, 2016): 192-194.
Review of Liberal Nationalisms: Empire, State, and Civil Society in Scotland and Quebec, by James Kennedy (McGill-Queen's University Press). Québec Studies 58 (Fall, 2014 / Winter, 2015): 153-155.
Review of Le Québec après Bouchard-Taylor: Les identités religi- euses de l'immigration, edited by Louis Rousseau (Les Presses de l'Université du Québec) [in English]. Québec Studies 58 (Fall, 2014 / Winter, 2015): 155-158.
Review of The Protestant Ethic Revisited, by Philip S. Gorski. Series: Politics, History, and Social Change (Temple University Press). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 74 (Summer, 2013): 284-285.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of Histoire intellectuelle de l'indépendantisme québécois. Tome 1: 1834-1968, edited by Robert Comeau, Charles-Philippe Courtois, and Denis Monière. Collection: « Études québécoises », no. 91 (VLB Éditeur) [in English]. Québec Studies 54 (Fall, 2012 / Winter, 2013): 130-132.
Review of Chicago Catholics and the Struggles Within Their Church, by Andrew M. Greeley (Transaction Publishers). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 41 (May, 2012): 340-341.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of America's Four Gods: What We Say About God -- and What That Says About Us, by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader (Oxford University Press). Politics, Religion and Ideology 13 (March, 2012): 128-130.
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Review of René Lévesque: Mythes et réalités, edited by Alexandre Stefanescu. Collection: « Études québécoises », no. 82 (VLB Éditeur) [in English]. The American Review of Canadian Studies 40 (December, 2010): 544-546.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys, by Neil J. Smelser (University of Califor- nia Press). Teaching Sociology 38 (October, 2010): 389-390.
Lead Review of The Robert Bellah Reader, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Steven M. Tipton (Duke University Press). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 70 (Spring, 2009): 86-87.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens, by Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge (Oxford University Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 (September, 2008): 521-522.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Social Origins of the Welfare State: Québec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955, by Dominique Marshall and translated by Nicola Doone Danby. Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). Québec Studies 44 (Fall, 2007 / Winter, 2008): 104-106.
Compte rendu de Watching Quebec: Selected Essays, par Ramsay Cook. Série: Carleton Library, No. 201 (McGill-Queen's University Press) [in French, translated from the English by Michel Ducharme and Damien-Claude Bélanger]. Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française 8 (automne [Fall,] 2007): 132-136.
Reviews of Church and State in Historical Perspective: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography and Church and State in the Modern World: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography, by James E. Wood, Jr. Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, Nos. 55 and 56 (Praeger Publishers). Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Waterloo, Ontario] 36 (2, 2007): 409-410.
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Review of Social Theory and Religion, by James A. Beckford (Cambridge University Press). History of Religions 46 (November, 2006): 169-171.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario, by James E. Moran. Series: McGill-Queen's / Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, No. 10 (McGill-Queen's University Press). Québec Studies 32 (Fall, 2001 / Winter, 2002): 135-136.
Review of Religion and Public Life in Canada: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Marguerite Van Die (University of Toronto Press). Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Waterloo, Ontario] 30 (3-4, 2001): 453-455.
Review of A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb, by Nancy L. Eiesland (Rutgers University Press). The Journal of Religion 81 (July, 2001): 524- 525.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Lord's Dominion: The History of Canadian Methodism, by Neil Semple. Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, No. 1.21 (McGill-Queen's University Press). Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Waterloo, Ontario] 29 (2, 2000): 251-252.
Review of Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology, edited by Madeleine Cousineau. Series: Religion in the Age of Transformation (Praeger Publishers). Social Forces 78 (September, 1999): 406-407.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict, by Robert S. Ellwood (Rutgers University Press). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 60 (Spring, 1999): 89-90.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
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Review of George Grant: Selected Letters, edited and with an introduction by William Christian (University of Toronto Press). The American Review of Canadian Studies 28 (Winter, 1998): 566-568.
Review of The Sociology of Religious Movements, by William Sims Bainbridge (Routledge). The Journal of Religion 78 (October, 1998): 675-676.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 95 (March, 1999 - February, 2000): 80.
Review of Congregation and Community, by Nancy Tatom Ammerman, with Arthur E. Farnsley, II, and Tammy Adams, Penny Edgell Becker, Brenda Brasher, Thomas Clark, Joan Cunningham, Nancy Eiesland, Barbara Elwell, Michelle Hale, Diana Jones, Virginia Laffey, Stacey Nicholas, Marcia Robinson, Mary Beth Sievens, Daphne Wiggins, and Connie Zeigler (Rutgers University Press). Social Forces 76 (December, 1997): 734-735.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Black Churches of Brooklyn, by Clarence Taylor. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life (Columbia University Press). American Historical Review 102 (October, 1997): 1,243.
Review of Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe: Traditions and Transitions, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. (Praeger Publishers). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 57 (Fall, 1996): 332-333.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of Women in Ministry: Receptivity and Resistance, by Edward C. Lehman, Jr. (Joint Board of Christian Education [Melbourne, Victoria, Australia]). Social Forces 74 (June, 1996): 1,457 - 1,458.
Review of Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta, by Edward Bell (McGill-Queen's University Press). The American Review of Canadian Studies 26 (Spring, 1996): 133-134.
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Review of Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy, by Stuart E. Knee. Series: Contributions in American History, No. 154 (Greenwood Press). American Historical Review 101 (February, 1996): 245-246.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 92 (March, 1996 - February, 1997): 1,151 - 1,152.
Review of The Post-War Generation and Establishment Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Wade Clark Roof, Jackson W. Carroll, and David A. Roozen (Westview Press). Social Forces 74 (September, 1995): 363-364.
Review of Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue: The Impact of the Puerto Rican Migration upon the Archdiocese of New York, by Ana María Díaz-Stevens. Series: Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame Press). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 56 (Summer, 1995): 221-223.
Reprinted in Book Review Digest (WilsonWeb Online Reference Database Service).
Review of The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Michael Novak (The Free Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33 (March, 1994): 83-84.
Lead Review of A Future for Religion? New Paradigms for Social Analysis, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. Series: Sage Focus Editions, No. 151 (Sage Publications). Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 54 (Fall, 1993): 313-314.
Review of The Protestant Experience in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1975: At Home in the City, by James W. Lewis (University of Tennessee Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32 (Septem- ber, 1993): 297-298.
Review of Religion and Personal Autonomy: The Third Disestablish- ment in America, by Phillip E. Hammond. Series: Studies in Com- parative Religion (University of South Carolina Press). American Journal of Sociology 99 (July, 1993): 245-247.
Review of Holding Fast / Pressing On: Religion in America in the 1980s, by Erling Jorstad. Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion, No. 26 (Greenwood Press / Praeger Publishers). Pp. 331- 332 in Eldon Jay Epp (ed.), Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1992 (Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1993).
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Review of Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States, by Richard M. Merelman (University of Wisconsin Press). American Journal of Sociology 98 (November, 1992): 708-709.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 89 (March, 1993 - February, 1994): 1,331.
Review of Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920, by Robert T. Handy. Series: Studies in Church and State (Princeton University Press). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 21 (September, 1992): 721-722.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 89 (March, 1993 - February, 1994): 841.
Review of Steeples and Stacks: Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown, by Thomas G. Fuechtmann. Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and American Public Life (Cambridge University Press). The Records of the American Catholic Historical Society [Philadel- phia] 102 (Spring, 1991): 73-74.
Review of Sociological Studies in Roman Catholicism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Roger O'Toole. Series: Studies in Religion and Society, No. 24 (Edwin Mellen Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30 (March, 1991): 133- 134.
Review of Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy, by George Weigel (Paulist Press). Journal of Church and State 32 (Autumn, 1990): 889-890.
Review of Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by George M. Thomas (The University of Chicago Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29 (September, 1990): 408-409.
Review of Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860, by Curtis D. Johnson (Cornell University Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29 (June, 1990): 266.
Review of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II, by Mark Silk (Simon and Schuster). American Historical Review 95 (April, 1990): 621.
Review of The Church in the City: Samuel C. Kincheloe and the Sociology of the City Church, edited by Yoshio Fukuyama. Series: Studies in Ministry and Parish Life (Exploration Press). American Journal of Sociology 95 (January, 1990): 1,103 - 1,105.
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Review of The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality, by David L. Preston (Cambridge University Press). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 18 (July, 1989): 596-597.
Review of Gone From the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History, by John R. Hall (Transaction Publishers). Social Science Quarterly 70 (March, 1989): 222-223.
Lead Review of Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance, by Martin E. Marty (Beacon Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27 (June, 1988): 291.
Review of Is God a Racist? The Right Wing in Canada, by Stanley R. Barrett (University of Toronto Press). Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 17 (May, 1988): 291-292.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 84 (March, 1988 - February, 1989): 99.
Review of A History of Christian Missions: Revised Edition, by Stephen Neill. Series: The Pelican History of the Church, No. 6 (Pelican Books). Review of Religious Research 29 (March, 1988): 315-316.
Review of The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism, by Lester R. Kurtz (University of California Press). American Journal of Sociology 93 (September, 1987): 470-472.
Excerpted in Book Review Digest 83 (March, 1987 - February, 1988): 1,056.
Review of Marxist Analysis and Christian Faith, by René Coste (Orbis Books). Sociological Analysis 48 (Summer, 1987): 193-194.
Review of The Catholic Charismatics: The Anatomy of a Modern Religious Movement, by Richard J. Bord and Joseph E. Faulkner (Pennsylvania State University Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (December, 1984): 422-423.
Review of Religion in Sociological Perspective, by Bryan Wilson (Oxford University Press). Social Forces 63 (December, 1984): 591- 592.
Review of Religion and the People of Western Europe, 1789-1970, by Hugh McLeod. Series: OPUS [Oxford Paperbacks University Series] (Oxford University Press). Sociological Analysis 45 (Fall, 1984): 262-264.
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Review of Religion: A Secular Theory, by Andrew M. Greeley (The Free Press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 22 (March, 1983): 88 and 90.
Organizational Communications
« Éditorial: 60ième anniversaire de Social Compass » / "Editorial: 60th Anniversary of Social Compass" [in French and in English, with the members of the Editorial Board]. Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion 60 (décembre / December, 2013): 445-450.
"Letter from the Past President: A Parting Word." ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 23 (Winter, 2006): 1-2.
"From the President: North to Montréal!" ASR [Association for the Sociology of Religion] News & Announcements 40 (Fall, 2005): 1.
"Letter from the President: A Season of Honor." ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 22 (Summer, 2005): 1-2.
"Letter from the President: Still at Work." ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 22 (Winter, 2005): 1-2.
"Letter of Welcome: Bienvenue! . . . Welcome!" P. 2 in Raymond J. Pelletier (comp.), Québec: New Worlds / Nouveaux mondes. Program of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the ACQS: American Council for Québec Studies, Québec (Québec), November 18-21, 2004. Plattsburgh, N.Y.: American Council for Québec Studies, 2004.
"Letter from the President: To Miss It Would Be CRIMINAL!" ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 21 (Fall, 2004): 1-2.
"Letter from the President: Join Us in Québec!" ACQS {American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 21 (Spring, 2004): 1-2.
"From the Vice-President: Continuities and Transitions." ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 20 (Fall, 2003): 2.
"Scholarship Unfolds and Good Times Roll in Mobile!" ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 20 (Spring, 2003): 2.
"A Message from the ACQS Board." P. 5 in Miléna Santoro (comp.), ACQS Membership Directory: 2002-2003. Plattsburgh, N.Y.: American Council for Québec Studies, 2003.
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"Welcome to Mobile! Bienvenue à Mobile!" ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 19 (Fall, 2002): 1.
"From the Vice-President." ACQS [American Council for Québec Studies] Newsletter 19 (Spring, 2002): 2.
Other
"Letters: Higher Incomes for the Good of Everyone" [letter]. The South Bend [Ind.] Tribune (April 2, 2016): A11.
"Woe, Canada? Things Not So Bad: There's Nothing for Americans to Fear. Sure, There's Been a Touch of SARS and Just a Hint of Mad Cow, But It's Safe to Visit, and the Canadians Are Not Crazy. Oh, and They're Still Our Friends. If All That Doesn't Convince You, How About Barenaked Ladies?" Section 2: "Sunday Perspective." The Chicago Tribune (June 8, 2003): 3.
Reprinted in part under « Relations canado-américaines » ["Canadian-American Relations"] in Info-matin [Le Bureau de Monitoring et de l'information, Direction générale des Affaires publiques, Ministère des Relations internationales, Gouvernement du Québec] 420 (10 juin [June 10,] 2003): 1.
"Consistent Trudeau" [letter]. The New York Times (June 19, 1987): A34.
Media Interviews
Electronic:
CJAD-AM Radio: "The Tommy Schnurmacher Program" (Montréal, Québec, Canada) KHOW-AM Radio: "The Reggie Rivers Show" (Denver, Colo.) WSBT-AM Radio: "Morning News Magazine" (South Bend, Ind.)
Print:
Catholic News Service (Washington, D.C.) The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.) Le Monde des religions (Paris) The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune The Sunday Star-Gazette (Elmira, N.Y.) The Times-Union (Albany, N.Y.) U. S. News and World Report
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PRESENTATIONS
Papers
"Studying the Religions of Québec: Description or Distortion from an American Angle?" Invited paper for « Étudier la religion au Québec: Regards d'ici et d'ailleurs », an international symposium of the Société québécoise pour l'étude de la religion (SQÉR), in collaboration with the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ), at the Pavillon Athanase- David, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Montréal, Québec, Canada (December 1, 2017).
"Labor Poet Ralph Chaplin: Resister to the 'Great War,' Prisoner of the 'Class War.'" Paper presented at "Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today," a 2017 Centennial Symposium of the National World War I Museum and Memorial, co-sponsored by the John Whitmer Historical Association, the Mennonite Historical Society, and the Peace History Society, at the R. A. Long Education Center of the Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (October 20, 2017).
"Canadian Religiosity and Public-Policy Preferences: Comparing Québec and the Rest of Canada" (with Samuel H. Fisher, III). Paper presented at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, at the Tuscany Suites Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 20, 2017).
"Institutional Development of Religion in the United States and Canada: Consequential Points of Historical Comparison." Paper presented to the workshop on "Reasonable Accommodations and Minority Religious Freedom in the U. S. and Canada," sponsored by the Center for Canadian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, at the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (November 20, 2014).
The Franklin Center at Duke posted a video recording (approx. 25 minutes) of this presentation, under the general title "The History of Religious Freedom," to YouTube (January 5, 2015) at:
"Trends and Prospects: The Example of Religion in Canada and the United States." Invited presentation to Canadian Studies students at the University of Maine at Orono during the celebration of "Canada Weeks" at the institution; Joseph M. Murray Hall, Orono, Maine (November 2, 2010).
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"The State of Québec Studies at American Colleges and Universities: Four Basic Problems." Invited presentation as part of a panel before the colloquium on "The Future of Québec Studies in the United States: Enriching a Vibrant Community," sponsored by the Institute on Québec Studies at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh; in association with the American Council for Québec Studies, the Association internationale des études québécoises, and the Ministère des Relations internationales of the Gouvernement du Québec; and hosted by the Canada Program, Harvard University; at the Albert and Celia Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu- setts (October 11, 2006).
"Clio Goes to Church: Revisiting and Revitalizing Historical Thinking in the Sociology of Religion." Presidential Address to the Association for the Sociology of Religion, delivered to a plenary session of the Annual Meeting of the Association, at the Hôtel Hyatt Regency Montréal / Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada (August 10, 2006).
"Personal Liberty, Social Difference, and the Dynamics of Devotion: Voluntary Religion and State Regulation in the United States and Canada." Invited address to an international conference, "Reli- gious Cultures -- Communities of Belief," sponsored by the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, Bayerisch-Amerikanisches Zentrum, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, at the Amerika Haus, München [Munich], Germany (June 18, 2004).
"Righteousness and Reticence: Political Uses of Religious Identity in the United States and Canada." Invited lecture under the auspices of the Program in Sociology and Social Thought, Department of Psychology and Sociology, at the J. Donald Phillips Auditorium, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan (April 19, 2004).
"The Decline of the Catholic Church in Québec: Secularization of Society or Sociological Irony?" Presentation to a colloquium of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, at the Joseph P. Fitzpatrick Seminar Room, Patrick F. Dealy, S.J., Hall, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York (March 28, 2003).
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"The Trajectory of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Québec: Institutional Religion and Élite Politics During an Era of Change." Invited address presented as a panelist at an international multi- disciplinary conference on "Decline and Fall? Roman Catholicism Since 1950 in the United States, the Republic of Ireland, and the Province of Québec," sponsored by the Center for American Catholic Studies and the Department of History, at the Life Cycle Institute, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (March 21, 2003).
"Faith in Politics and the Faiths of Politicians: Religion and the 2000 Elections in Canada and the United States." Paper presented to the faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, at the Croft Institute for International Studies, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (March 22, 2002).
"'Promised Land' or 'God's Dominion': Denominational Religion and Partisan Politics in the United States and Canada." Paper presented to the session on "Exploring Current Issues in Church- State Relations" of the Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Doubletree Houston Post Oak Hotel, Houston, Texas (October 21, 2000).
"The Accommodation of Religious Difference in North America: A Tale of Two Nations." Paper presented to a research forum in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Henry Marshall Tory Building, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (March 8, 1999).
"Church and State in Institutional Flux: Canada and the United States in Comparison." Invited address to a conference on "Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and the United States," sponsored by the Project on Religion and Politics in Canada and the U. S. A., in association with the Queen's University Research Unit on Religion and Society, at the Donald Gordon Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (May 14, 1998).
"From TCA to Air Canada: The Political Patterns of a Future Prime Minister." Paper presented to a faculty colloquium in the School of Public Administration, A. Davidson Dunton Tower, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (July 18, 1995).
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"The Catholic Church and Recent Immigrants to the United States: A Review of Research." Paper presented to Symposium III on "Vatican II and American Catholicism" of the Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion for the Sociology of Religion, at the Dupont Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C. (August 11, 1990).
"Popular Literacy and Urban Religious Diversity: An Analysis of U. S. Census Data from the Turn of the Century." Paper presented to the session on "Religion and Social Change in Comparative Perspective" of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (October 26, 1984).
"Protestants and 'Papists': Religious Diversity and Urban Subcul- tural Conflict at the Turn of the Century." Paper presented to the session on "Conflict and Change" of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at Mercy College of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan (August 30, 1983).
"Religious Diversity and Historical Change in Urban America." Paper presented to faculty and students in the Department of Sociology at the Julius A. Nieuwland Hall of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (November 23, 1982).
"Religious Diversity and Religious Change in Turn-of-the-Century American Cities." Paper presented to the session on "Historical Sociology and the Study of Religion" of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island (October 23, 1982).
"City Churches and City Changes: The Turn-of-the-Century Experi- ence." Paper presented to faculty in the Department of Sociology at Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 22, 1982).
"Religion and Bereavement: A Conceptual Framework and Specification of Opportunities for Research" (with Robert Wuthnow and John Kuzloski). Paper presented to the "Sociology of Religion" session of the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Associa- tion, at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York, New York (August 29, 1980).
"Church as a Family Surrogate." Paper presented to the "Sociology of Religion" session of the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion, at the Robert E. Speer Library, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey (May 5, 1980).
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Commentaries
"Québec Studies: The Evolution of the Journal." Comments in a panel discussion with current and former editors of Québec Studies, the bilingual and multi-disciplinary scholarly journal, for the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, at the InterContinental New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2, 2018).
"Gender and Organizational Genius: Women in Spiritual Leadership." Invited comments for an "Authors-Meet-the-Critics" session on Women, Religion, and Leadership: Female Saints as Unexpected Leaders, edited by Barbara Jones Denison (New York: Routledge Studies in Leadership Research, 2017), for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Sofitel Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August 12, 2018).
"A Toast to Robert Wuthnow." A tribute on the occasion of the presentation to him of the first Andrew M. Greeley Lifetime Achievement Award in the Sociology of Religion from the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame, at the Forum of Jenkins Nanovic Halls, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (April 27, 2018).
"Solidarity: All the Way Down, Up, and Throughout." Invited response to a presentation on "Immigration, Outsourcing, and Unjust Wages: How Wage Injustice Interrupts Solidarity," by Tisha Rajendra, at the Just Wage Working Group Research Workshop, sponsored by the Monsignor George G. Higgins Labor Studies Program, at the Michael and Sheila Geddes Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (March 31, 2017).
"Windy City Workers and Preachers on the Side of the Rebel Jesus." Invited presentation for an "Author-Meets-the-Critics" panel on Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago, by Heath W. Carter (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington (August 21, 2016).
"Vision and Verse: The Labor Art and Poetry of Ralph Chaplin." Illustrated lecture presented to the Labor Research Workshop ("Labor RAPS: Research, Advocacy, and Policy Series"), sponsored by the Monsignor George G. Higgins Labor Studies Program, at the Michael and Sheila Geddes Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (September 26, 2014).
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"Religious Identity and Political Intensity: Federal Campaigns in the United States and Canada." Remarks to a luncheon at the Wells Conference Center for faculty members in Canadian Studies, sociology, history, and political science; sponsored by the Canadian-American Center and supported by the United States Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) of Canada, during "Canada Weeks" at the University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine (November 2, 2010).
"Ralph Lane's 'New Beginning': Progress Toward a Goal for the Sociology of Religion." Invited presentation for a memorial session on the work of Ralph Lane, Jr., in the sociology of religion, social activism, and the defense of academic freedom, "Catholicism, Change, and Context: The Life-World of Ralph Lane and the Birthing of the ASR," for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California (August 8, 2009).
"Books: From Scholarly Projects to Commercial Products." Comments presented in a session on "Tips for Student Publishing" for the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn Hotel, Dearborn, Michigan (April 18, 2009).
"Creativity Within Religion Among 'The Creative Class.'" Invited presentation as part of an "Author-Meets-the-Critics" panel on Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church, by Gerardo Martí (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008), for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Seelbach Hilton Louisville Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky (October 17, 2008).
"From Hand to Mouth: Assessments of Where We Stand and Where We're Heading." Invited participation on a panel of editors of, and contributors to, The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, edited by James A. Beckford and N. J. Demerath, III (London, England, and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2007), for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Boston Park Plaza and Towers Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (August 2, 2008).
"Making a Place for History and Historical Scholarship in the Sociology of Religion." Invited response in the session titled "Clio Goes to Church (Again): History, Time, Meaning, and Memory in the Sociology of Religion," for the Annual Meeting of the Associa- tion for the Sociology of Religion, at the Boston Park Plaza and Towers Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (July 31, 2008).
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"Catholics of the United States in the New Millennium." Invited presentation on American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church, by William V. D'Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, and Mary L. Gautier (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007), in an "Authors- Meet-the-Critics" session for the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association, at the Hyatt Regency Tampa Hotel Downtown at Tampa City Center, Tampa, Florida (November 3, 2007).
"Articles, Books, and Publishing in Religion Today." Comments as an invited participant on a panel about scholarly publication, "Publishing Journal Articles and Books," at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Marriott Marquis New York Hotel on Times Square, New York, New York (August 12, 2007).
"The Future of Québec Studies in the U. S.: Findings and Recommen- dations." Invited presentation to a plenary panel of the Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts (October 13, 2006).
"Comparative Advantages of Comparative (and Historical) Research in the Sociology of Religion." Presentation for an invited didactic session on research methods, "The Art and Craft of Researching Religion," for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Radisson Plaza - Warwick Hotel Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August 14, 2005).
"The American Council for Québec Studies (ACQS): Structure and Programs." Presentation to the session on « Le Québec et le Canada dans les associations » for the 14th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, Québec City, Québec, Canada (November 19, 2004).
"Texts and Teaching in Trans-Atlantic Perspective." Invited presentation on Sociologies et religion: Approches classiques, by Danièle Hervieu-Léger and Jean-Paul Willaime. Collection: « Socio- logie d'aujourd'hui » (Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 2001), in an "Authors-Meet-the-Critics" session for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, in cooperation with the Groupe de sociologie des religions et de la laïcité [France], at the Omni Hotel at CNN Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia (August 16, 2003).
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"'Science' and 'Religion' in the Social Sciences of Religion." Comment and debate as an invited participant in a panel discussion on "The Compatibility of Social Science and Religion," for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah (November 1, 2002).
"A Devil for the Twenty-First Century." Presentation on American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty, by Michael W. Cuneo (New York: Doubleday, Inc., 2001), in an "Author-Meets-the- Critics" session for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Essex Inn on Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois (August 15, 2002).
"Conflict in Congregations and Communities." Presentation as invited critic on Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life, by Penny Edgell Becker (Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), in an "Author- Meets-the-Critics" session during the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. (August 13, 2000).
"A Catholic Perspective on Protestant Worldviews." Presentation on Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools, by Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), in a special book panel for the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, San Francisco, California (August 20, 1998).
"'The Most Representative Church in America.'" Prepublication presentation on "Methodism Transformed," the summary chapter of Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Chris- tianity in America, by John H. Wigger (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2001), for the Notre Dame Colloquium on American Religion, at the Arthur J. Decio Faculty Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (October 5, 1995).
"Denominationalism in the United States." Invited lecture to graduate students in American religion, at the Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (February 16, 1995).
"Five Challenges Facing the Catholic Church in America." Invited lecture to undergraduate students in the sociology of religion, at the Department of Sociology, Sociology-Psychology Building, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (November 8, 1994).
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"Privilege or Simply Position? The Status of Religion in Legal Disputes and Political Debate." Presentation on The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion, by Stephen L. Carter (New York: Basic Books, 1993), for the Notre Dame Colloquium on American Religion, at the Arthur J. Decio Faculty Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (January 27, 1994).
"Religious Commitment and Church Competition." Introductory comments for an "Authors-Meet-the-Critics" session on The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy, by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992), in the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Quality Shawnee Beach Resort, Miami Beach, Florida (August 13, 1993).
"The New and the Not-So-New in New England Religion." Presentation for the "Authors-Meet-the-Critics" session on A Bridging of Faiths: Religion and Politics in a New England City, by N. J. Demerath, III, and Rhys H. Williams (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), in the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Stouffer Concourse Hotel at Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia (November 8, 1992).
"Social Science History and Cultural Interpretations of Revival- ism." Presentation for the "Author-Meets-the-Critics" session on Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by George M. Thomas (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989), at a meeting of the Religion and Society Network of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 1, 1991).
"Teaching the Sociology of Religion, Carefully." Comments delivered as an invited panelist in the special seminar on teaching, "Disenchantment as a Sociological Imperative: Must We Destroy the Faith of Our Students?," held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Omni Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio (August 21, 1991).
"The Church and New Immigrants." Presentation to an Informal Discussion Roundtable, sponsored by the Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities, of the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, at the Washington Hilton and Towers Hotel, Washington, D.C. (August 14, 1990).
"The Problem of Civil Religion in Canada." Invited presentation to the Sociology of Religion Workshop in the Department of Sociology and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (February 1, 1990).
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"American Religion in the Postwar Period." Commentary on The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II, by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988), presented at the Notre Dame Seminar in American Religion, sponsored by the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (November 12, 1988).
"The Logic of Research in Sociology." Invited lecture to graduate students in the methods of social scientific research, at the Department of Sociology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 25, 1987).
"Civil Religion and the Religions of Canada." Invited lecture to graduate students in the sociology of religion, at the Department of Sociology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (September 30, 1986).
"A Theory of Religion and Theories of Religion." Prepublication critique of A Theory of Religion, by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1987; New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996), presented in a special plenary session, "A Theory of Religion by Stark and Bainbridge: Preview and Response," at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Dupont Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C. (August 24, 1985).
"Insights and Oversights in the Sociological Study of Religion." Presentation to the Religion and Society Network, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, at the Memorial Library Lounge, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (January 26, 1984).
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THESES
Title: Religious Diversity and Social Change in Turn-of-the- Century American Cities. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 1983. Pp. xiv + 281. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, Publication Number 84-02,680. Advisor: Professor Robert Wuthnow (Sociology); Readers: Professor Robert C. Liebman (Sociology) and Professor John F. Wilson (Religion)
Title: "To Render the People Homogenous": The Urban Ethnic Neigh- borhood and Its Battle for Legitimacy. Bachelor's Honors Thesis, Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary, 1977. Pp. v + 136. Williamsburg, Va.: Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Advisor: Professor Victor A. Liguori (Sociology); Readers: Professor Trudier Harris (English) and Professor William H. Martineau (Sociology)
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Offices and Boards
President-Elect (2004-2005 [elected]), President (2005-2006), and Immediate Past President (2006-2007), Association for the Sociology of Religion.
Vice-President (2001-2003 [elected]), President (2003-2005 [elec- ted]), and Past President (2005-2009), American Council for Québec Studies.
In March of 2005, during the second year of this two-year presidential term, the American Council for Québec Studies was awarded the Prix du 3-juillet-1608 by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française of the Gouvernement du Québec.
This annual award recognizes the distinguished perfor- mance of an organization working to develop and spread the French language in North America. That year was only the second time since the prize's inception three decades before that it was bestowed on an organization outside Canada.
Secretary-Treasurer (elected), Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (2007-2010).
Finance Committee, North Central Sociological Association (2006- 2014 [Chair]).
Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee, North Central Sociological Association (2009-2010 [Co-Chair]).
Member-at-Large (elected), Council, North Central Sociological Association (2006-2008).
Affiliate Representative, Committee of Canadian Studies Organiza- tions, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (2004- 2005).
Executive Council (elected), Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (1996-1999).
Committee on Membership, Association for the Sociology of Religion (1994-1998 [Chair]).
Committee for Amendment of the Constitution and Drafting of the By- Laws, American Council for Québec Studies (2019-2020).
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Subcommittee on Graduate Students' Teaching Skills Training, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Education, American Sociological Association (1994-1995).
Director-at-Large (elected), Board of Directors, Religious Research Association (1991-1995).
Executive Council (elected), Association for the Sociology of Religion (1991-1994).
Publishing Positions
Chair (elected), Publications Committee, and Member Ex Officio, Board of Directors, Religious Research Association (2010-2015).
Comité de rédaction international / International Editorial Board, Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion, published in French and English by Sage Publications (London) in association with the Société internationale de sociologie des religions and the Groupe de sciences sociales des religions, Académie universitaire de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) (2010-2020).
Associate Editor, Editorial Board, Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion, published in French and English by Sage Publications (London) in association with the Société internationale de sociologie des religions and with the Fédération internationale des Instituts de recherches sociales et socio- religieuses, at L'Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la- Neuve, Belgium) (2005-2010).
Associate Editor for History and the Social Sciences, Québec Studies, official journal of the American Council for Québec Studies (2004-2018), published in French and English by the Liverpool [U. K.] University Press (2014-2018).
For fourteen years (or for nearly half of the publication's history to that point), oversaw the review, revision, and editing of all submissions in the fields of history and the social sciences.
Supervising editor for a special edition of Québec Studies on "Regulating Religion in Québec," compiled by Martin Geoffroy and Solange Lefebvre (2008-2011).
Editorial Board, Québec Studies, official journal of the American Council for Québec Studies (2018 - ).
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Editorial Board, Sociological Focus, official journal of the North Central Sociological Association, published by Paradigm Publishers (2003-2011), and by Routledge, of the Taylor and Francis Group (2011-2014).
Comité consultatif [Board of Editorial Consultants], Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française, originally published in Sainte-Foy, Québec (Canada), by Les Presses de l'Université Laval (2004-2009); now Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle et culturelle, published in French in partnership with the Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne and the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, L'Université d'Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) (2009 - ).
Editorial Board, The American Review of Canadian Studies, official journal of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (1999-2008); now published by Routledge.
Advisory Editor, Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly, official journal of the Midwest Sociological Society, published by Blackwell Publishing, Limited (2003-2008).
Committee on Publications, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2003-2004 [Chair]).
Committee on Publications, Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (1995-1998 [Chair]).
Associate Editor, Joint History Project, Religious Research Association and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (appointed 1995).
Reviewer for the contents of a special issue on the sociology of religion, Sociological Inquiry (66 [Summer, 1996]: 285-373), the journal of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honorary society (March-April, 1995).
Nominations Committees
Nominations Committee, American Council for Québec Studies (2003, 2005, 2006-2007 [Chair], 2009 [Chair], 2011, and 2015).
Committee on Nominations, Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (1994 [Chair] and 1995 [Chair]).
Nominating Committee (elected), Religious Research Association (1988-1990).
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Committee on Nominations and Elections, Association for the Sociology of Religion (1983-1984, 1995-1996, and 2006-2007 [Chair]).
Award Juries
Selection Committee, Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Sociology of Religion, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018-2019, 2019-2020 [Chair], 2020-2021).
Distinguished Book Award Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (1991, 1992, 2011, and 2012).
Selection Committee, Prix du Québec; American Council for Québec Studies and La Direction États-Unis, Direction générale des Amériques et de l'Asie-Pacifique, Ministère des Relations internationales, Gouvernement du Québec (2002, 2004, 2006 [Chair], 2008 [Chair], 2012, 2018, and 2020).
Distinguished Book Award Committee, Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (2003-2004 [Chair] and 2004-2005 [Chair]).
Selection Committee, Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2000-2001).
Research Proposal Review Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (1995).
Program Planning
Invited Organizer, Workshop on "Reasonable Accommodations and Minority Religious Freedom in the U. S. and Canada," sponsored by the Center for Canadian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, at the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2014).
Local Arrangements, Second [Midwestern] Québec Studies Outreach Seminar, sponsored by the Ministère des Relations internationales, Gouvernement du Québec, and the American Council for Québec Studies, at the Notre Dame Conference Center, Andrew J. McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (May 21, 2010 [Chair]).
Program Committee, Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Associa- tion for Canadian Studies in the United States (November 16-20, 2005), at the Millennium Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri (2004-2005).
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Program Committee, « ACQS 2002: ‹La Présence francophone en Amérique du nord› » [46 scheduled sessions, 145 program partici- pants in total], 13th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies (October 24-27, 2002), at the Adam's Mark Hotel, Riverview Plaza, Mobile, Alabama (2001-2002 [Chair]).
Conference Planning Committee and Program Committee (Social Sciences [Chair]), 12th Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies (October 26-29, 2000), at Marriott's Renaissance Hôtel-du-Parc et le Centre de conférence de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (1999-2000).
Committee on the 1998 Annual Meeting Program, Section on the Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association (1997- 1998).
Program Chair, "Religion in Sociology" [29 scheduled sessions, 131 program participants in total], Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Omni Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio (August 21-23, 1991).
Conference Sessions
Session Organizer, Regular Program Sessions on "The Sociology of Religion" [2 scheduled sessions, 9 program participants in total], for the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Associa- tion, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio (April 1 and 2, 2011).
Session Organizer, "Author-Meets-the-Critics" Panel on Margarita Mooney, Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2009), for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Westin Tabor Center Hotel, Denver, Colorado (October 24, 2009).
Session Organizer, Regular Program Session on "Religion and Society" [1 scheduled session, 9 program participants in total], for the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Associa- tion, at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn Hotel, Dearborn, Michigan (April 17, 2009).
Session Organizer, Regular Program Sessions on "The Sociology of Religion" [2 scheduled sessions, 11 program participants in total], for the joint meeting of the North Central Sociological Association and the Midwest Sociological Society, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown - Magnificent Mile Hotel, Chicago, Illinois (April 4 and 5, 2007).
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Program Section Co-Chair (with C. E. S. Franks), "Quebec and the French Presence in North America" [4 scheduled sessions, 14 program participants in total], Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, at the Millennium Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri (November 16-20, 2005).
Refereed Roundtables Organizer, Section on the Sociology of Religion [8 scheduled tables, 21 program participants in total], Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers Hotel, San Francisco, California (August 25, 1998).
Session Organizer, "Author-Meets-the-Critics" Panel on E. Digby Baltzell, The Protestant Establishment Revisited, edited by Howard G. Schneiderman (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991), of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh Hotel at Chatham Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (August 20, 1992).
Session Organizer, "Authors-Meet-the-Critics" Panel on William R. Hutchison (ed.), Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960 (Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, at the Virginia Beach Resort and Conference Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia (November 9, 1990).
Regular Session Organizer, Panel on "Religion and Ethnic Identity" of the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Associa- tion, at the Washington Hilton and Towers Hotel, Washington, D.C. (August 12, 1990).
Seminars
Invited participant in the Twenty-Third Annual Québec Summer Seminar, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Canada, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York; eight days of study and travel in Chicoutimi [Saguenay], Montréal, and Québec City, Québec, Canada (August 5-12, 2001).
Invited participant in the 28th Annual Leadership Conference of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, New York, New York; on the theme "Canadian and American Relations in the New Millennium," at the Château Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (October 12-14, 1997).
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Invited participant in the Atlantic Canada Faculty Institute, sponsored by the Canadian-American Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine; nine days of study and travel in Bangor, Maine; Fredericton, St. Andrews, and Saint John, New Brunswick; and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (June 3-11, 1996).
Invited participant in the Sixteenth Annual Québec Summer Seminar, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Canada, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York; seven days of study and travel in Montréal and Québec City, Québec, Canada (June 15-21, 1994).
Other
Participating Scholar, ReligionSource (
Official Observer Status, Liberal Party of Canada [LPC] / Le Parti libéral du Canada [PLC]: at LPC - 2013 - PLC Leadership, Westin Ottawa Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (April 14, 2013); at Ottawa 2012: Liberal Biennial Convention / Congrès biennal libéral, Ottawa Convention Centre (January 13-15, 2012); at the 2005 Biennial Convention, Ottawa Congress Centre (March 3-6, 2005); at Liberal Leadership 2003, Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario (November 12-15, 2003); and at the National Biennial Convention, Ottawa Congress Centre (March 16-19, 2000).
Consultant / Advisor, North America Team - Religion Theme, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (
Consultant, Project for a Cross-Border Survey of the United States and Canada on Christianity, Political Orientation, and Social Capital ["God and Society in North America: A Survey of Religion, Politics, and Social Involvement in Canada and the United States"]; conducted by the Angus Reid Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; with the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois; and the George A. Rawlyk Research Unit on Religion and Society, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (April and August-October, 1996).
Consultant, Project on Urbanization and American Religion ["A Historical Study of the Response of American Religion to Urbaniza- tion in Chicago"], Center for the Study of Theological Education, Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, New York (1994).
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Consultant, Project to Promote Ethnographic Research on Religious Congregations of "New Immigrant" Populations, Office of Social Science Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1992).
Editorial and Organizational Affiliations
Reviews of Personnel,
for promotion, tenure, research chairs, and special awards at eighteen different colleges and universi- ties in the United States and Canada.
Reviews of Programs,
The Northeast National Resource Center on Canada (Canadian-American Center, University of Maine at Orono; and the Center for the Study of Canada, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh); for the International Educa- tion Programs Service, Office of Post-Second- ary Education, United States Department of Education.
Book Reviewer, American Historical Review American Journal of Sociology The American Review of Canadian Studies The Catholic Historical Review Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Critical Review of Books in Religion History of Religions Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Journal of Church and State Journal of Religion Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française [Canada] Politics, Religion and Ideology [U.K.] Québec Studies Records of the American Catholic Historical Society Recherches sociographiques [Québec] Review of Religious Research Social Forces Social Science Quarterly Sociological Analysis Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Canada] Teaching Sociology
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Proposal and Application Reviewer, Association francophone pour le savoir [Québec] Prix André-Laurendeau Prix Marcel-Vincent Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des Arts du Canada [Canada] (Izaak Walton Killam Research Fellowships) Canada Foundation for Innovation / Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation [Canada] (Comité d'évaluation multidisciplinaire: Les Fonds des Initiatives nouvelles, Les Fonds de l'Avant-garde [Québec], and Les Fonds des leaders John-R.-Evans / John R. Evans Leaders Opportunity Fund -- Financement de l'infrastructure de recherche) Evangelical Scholarship Initiative (Sociology) Les Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture [Québec] (now Les Fonds de recherche du Québec -- Société et culture [Québec]) (Concours: Soutien aux équipes de recherche) Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Austria] (National Research Networks Program, The Austrian Science Fund) Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej [Poland] (Sabbatical Fellowships for Master Laureates, Foundation for Polish Science) Israel Science Foundation [Israel] (Individual Research Grant Competition) The Louisville Institute (Religious Institutions Grants Program) National Science Foundation [U. S. A.] (Political Science and Sociology Programs) The Pew Charitable Trusts (Program in Religion) Rannís: The Icelandic Centre for Research [Iceland] (The Icelandic Research Fund) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada [Canada] (Standard Research Grants Program / Subventions ordinaires de recherche, and Insight Grants Program / Programme Savoir) Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Ethical or Religious Values: Preliminary Review Panel [Sociology])
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Manuscript and Proposal Referee,
AltaMira Press (Lanham, Md.; and New York, N.Y.) Broadview Press (Peterborough, Ont., Canada) Cambridge University Press, North American Branch (New York, N.Y.) William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Lexington Books (Lanham, Md.) McGill-Queen's University Press (Kingston, Ont., Canada) Oxford University Press (New York, N.Y.) Polity Press (Cambridge, England) Princeton University Press (Princeton, N.J.) Routledge - Chapman & Hall (New York, N.Y.; and Oxford, England) Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers (Boulder, Colo.) State University of New York Press (Albany, N.Y.) University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.) University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, N. Mex.) University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, N.C.) University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ont., Canada) Wadsworth Publishing Company (Belmont, Calif.) Westview Press (Boulder, Colo.; and New York, N.Y.)
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Article Referee, American Journal of Sociology The American Review of Canadian Studies American Sociological Review Crime, Law and Social Change Great Plains Research CCHA [Canadian Catholic Historical Association] Historical Studies [Canada] Histoire, Économie et Société (H.É.S.) [France] History of Intellectual Culture [Canada] Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion International Journal of Canadian Studies / La Revue internationale d'études canadiennes [Canada] International Migration International Sociology Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Journal of Family Issues Journal of Law and Religion Journal of Religious History [Australia] Mens: La Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française [Canada] The Pacific Coast Theological Society Journal Politics and Religion Practical Matters: A Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology Qualitative Sociology Québec Studies Rationality and Society Recherches sociographiques [Québec] Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion Review of Politics Review of Religious Research Social Compass [Belgium] Social Currents Social Forces Social Problems Social Science History Social Science Quarterly Sociological Focus Sociological Forum Sociological Inquiry The Sociological Quarterly The Sociological Review [England] Sociological Spectrum Sociological Theory Sociological Voices
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Sociology and Social Research Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review Sociology of Sport Journal Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Canada] Teaching Sociology
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Member, Academic and Professional Organizations:
American Council for Québec Studies American Italian Historical Association / Italian American Studies Association American Sociological Association (Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, Section on Labor and Labor Movements, Section on the Sociology of Culture, and Section on the Sociology of Religion) Association for Canadian Studies / Association des études canadiennes [Canada] Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Association for the Sociology of Religion Association internationale des études québécoises / International Association of Québec Studies [Québec] Canadian Study of Parliament Group / Groupe canadien d'étude des parlements [Canada] Midwest Association for Canadian Studies North Central Sociological Association The Private Eye Writers of America (Associate) Religious Research Association Social Science History Association (Religion and Society Network) Société internationale de sociologie des religions [Belgium] Société québécoise pour l'étude de la religion [Québec] Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (Fellow's Award [for twenty-five consecutive years of membership], 2005)
Service to the Community:
Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice (2014 - ) New London Lake Condominium Association (governance of an eighty-unit housing development, built in 1972 in St. Joseph County, Indiana) Board of Managers (2010-2014 [elected]) President (2012-2014 [elected]) Vice-President (2010-2012 [elected]) Advisory Council (2006-2010 [volunteer]; 2010- 2012 [Chair]) S. B. Regional Coalition for the Common Good (2018) (cooperation between organized labor and local communities in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties)
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UNIVERSITY and DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Chairperson, Department of Sociology (1992-1994); Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology (1989-1992); Senior Undergraduate Advisor [Director of Undergraduate Studies], Department of Sociology (1987-1989); Committee on Appointments and Promotions (CAP), Department of Sociology (1989-1992 and 1995-1996 [elected], and 1992-1994 [Chair]); Fiscal Integrity Subcommittee, Self-Study for Division I Certifi- cation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (1995-1996); Committee to Plan a Concentration in the "Catholic Social Tradi- tion," Center for Social Concerns (1995-1996); "Just Wage" Working Group, Center for Social Concerns (2016-2020); Placement Committee, Department of Sociology (2000 [Chair]); Representative from the College of Arts and Letters, University Code of Honor Committee, University of Notre Dame (2010-2013; Task Force on Best Honor Code Practices, 2011-2013 [Chair]); Honesty Committee, Department of Sociology (1993-1994 [Chair], 2001-2003, 2003-2007 [Chair]; Honesty Representative, 2008- 2018); Committee for Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology (1989-1992 [Chair], 2018-2019); Abstract Reviewer, Graduate Research Symposium, Graduate Student Union and The Graduate School (2008 and 2009-2010); Ex Officio Representative to the College Council, College of Arts and Letters (1992-1994); Elections Committee, College Council, College of Arts and Letters (1994 [elected]); Dean's Long-Range Planning Committee, College of Arts and Letters (1993-1994); Dean's Ad Hoc Committee on Staff Compensation Policies, College of Arts and Letters (1993-1994 [Chair]); University President's Committee to Evaluate the Hammes Notre Dame Book Store, University of Notre Dame (1992-1993); Review Committee, Faculty Research Program, Office of Research, The Graduate School (1993 and 1994); Marshal, University Commencement Exercises (1994); Freshman Orientation Discussion Moderator, Office of the Freshman Year of Studies (August, 1992; and August, 1993); Official Delegate of the University of Notre Dame to the Inaugura- tion of Timothy J. Sullivan as the Twenty-Fifth President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia (October 16, 1992); Guest Speaker, Arts and Letters Fellowship Summer Program, The Graduate School (August, 2012);
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"Testing, Grading, and Fairness" and "Testing, Grading, and the Honor Code" Panelist, The Graduate School and the Graduate Student Union (October, 1992 [Chair]; and August, 1993); "What is Graduate Education, and Is It for Me?" Panelist, Colle- giate Office for Undergraduate Studies and Office of the College Fellow, College of Arts and Letters (Fall, 1992 and 1993); Review Panel for the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, College of Arts and Letters (1992 [Chair]); Internal Review Panel for the Department of American Studies, The Graduate School (1991); Interviewer, Campus Committee, Institute of International Education [Fulbright Program] (1991); Proposal Reviewer, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters (1991); "Preparing for Graduate School" Panelist, University Career and Placement Services (Spring, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994); Nomination Committee, Distinguished Master's Thesis Award of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, The Graduate School (1990); Council of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award Selection Committee, The Graduate School (1990); Interviewer, University President's Task Force on Evangelization, Pastoral Ministry, and Social Values (1990); Chairperson Search Committee, Department of Sociology (1988-1989); Curriculum and Programs Committee, Department of Sociology (1987- 1989); Dean's Ad Hoc Committee on Renewal, Tenure, and Promotion Proce- dures, College of Arts and Letters (1986); Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology (1985-1986 and 1989-1992); Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology (1984-1985 and 1996); Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology (1983- 1986, 1995-2007, 2008-2018, and 2019-2020); Committee for the Margaret Terese Eisch Memorial Endowment Fund for Excellence in Sociology, Department of Sociology (2018-2020); Library Committee, Department of Sociology (1983-1985, 1985-1986 [Chair], and 2000-2002); and Graduate Examination Committees (Racial and Ethnic Relations, Research Methods, Social Organization, Social Stratification, Sociological Theory, the Sociology of Culture, and the Sociology of Religion), Departments of American Studies, Government [Political Science], History, and Sociology (1983 - ).
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THESIS and DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
(All theses and dissertations were completed in the Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, unless otherwise indicated. All affiliations are current as of Fall, 2018.)
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Director
Joseph Matthew Geenen (May, 2019)
Nicholas Timothy Herrera (May, 2010; magna cum laude) (University of Michigan Law School; Associate, Morgan Lewis [San Francisco, Calif.])
Masters Theses
Director (with student's placement)
Jamie Sue McClintock (May, 2001) (Director of Academic Advising, Pennsylvania State University [University Park]) Stacy M. González Lavoie (May, 2000) (Dean of Students, Russell Sage College [Troy, N.Y.]) Jerry Z. Park (August, 1998) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Baylor University [Waco, Tex.]) Yuri Andreevich Chumakov (August, 1997) (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tennessee [Knoxville]) Neal Jeffrey Christopherson (May, 1997) (Director of Institutional Research, Whitman College [Walla Walla, Wash.]) Yanxi [Benjamin] Gu (May, 1993) (Software Developer, IceKredit, Inc. [Plano, Tex.]) Rev. Sergio O. Pereira (May, 1993) (Correctional Chaplain, Arizona Department of Correction [Phoenix]; Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator, Integrity Hospice Care [Gold Canyon, Ariz.])
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Reader
Jonathan Peter Hill (May, 2004) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Calvin College [Grand Rapids, Mich.]) Sarah Louise MacMillen (August, 2002) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Duquesne University [Pittsburgh, Pa.]) Matthew Thomas Loveland (May, 2001) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science, LeMoyne College [Syracuse, N.Y.]) Robert Dudley Woodberry (May, 1997) (Research Associate Professor, Baylor University [Waco, Tex.]) Sharon Louise Miller (January, 1994) (Director of Research, Center for the Study of Theological Education, Auburn Theological Seminary [New York, N.Y.]) Samuel Harold Reimer (August, 1993) (Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology, Crandall University [Moncton, N.B., Canada]) James Charles Cavendish (May, 1993) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida [Tampa, Fla.]) Fred M. Holycross (American Studies; May, 1990) (Environmental Planner and Historic Preservationist, Federal Emergency Management Agency [Baltimore, Md.]) Janet E. Kehoe-Fariña (May, 1986) (Software Developer, CMA Consulting Services, Inc. [Latham, N.Y.])
Doctoral Dissertations
Director (with student's placement)
Karen Monique Gregg (May, 2012) Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of History and Social Science, University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, Indiana); Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montana State University (Bozeman)
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Yuting Wang (May, 2009) Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah (University City, Al-Shariqa, United Arab Emirates)
Rev. Roberto Exequi Nuñez Rivera, S.J. (January, 2009) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Loyola University - Chicago (Illinois); and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University (Quezon City, Philippines); Founding Rector, St. John de Brito College (Timór-Leste, Indonesia); Director, Southeast Asia Rural Leadership Initiative, Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines); President, Ateneo de Naga University (Naga City, Philippines)
Jerry Z. Park (May, 2004) Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baylor University (Waco, Texas)
Yuri Andreevich Chumakov (May, 2003) Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
Sung-Chang Chun (January, 2002) Assistant Professional Specialist, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame (Indiana); Assistant Professor to Professor of General Education, Mercy College of Ohio (Toledo)
Reader
Rev. David Eliaona Lyimo, C.S.C. (Theology; in progress)
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Katherine Ruth Comeau (August, 2019) Linda Marie Kawentel (August, 2017) (Senior Research Scientist, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame [Ind.]; Adjunct Instructor, Department of Psychology and Social Science, Holy Cross College [Notre Dame, Ind.]) Jeffrey Michael Seymour (August, 2013) (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Carthage College [Kenosha, Wis.]) Brooke Elizabeth Underwood Fischer (August, 2010) (Co-Founder, Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church [Nampa, Idaho]) Jonathan Peter Hill (January, 2008) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Calvin College [Grand Rapids, Mich.]) Sarah Louise MacMillen (January, 2007) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Duquesne University [Pittsburgh, Pa.]) Xiao-qing [Sharon] Wang (May, 2004) (Director of Graduate Publications, Azusa Pacific University [Calif.]) Joanna Urszula Kaftan (May, 2002) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Houston - Downtown [Tex.]) Neal Jeffrey Christopherson (August, 2000) (Director of Institutional Research, Whitman College [Walla Walla, Wash.]) Rev. Sergio O. Pereira (August, 2000) (Correctional Chaplain, Arizona Department of Correction [Phoenix]; Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator, Integrity Hospice Care [Gold Canyon, Ariz.]) Paul M. Perl (August, 2000) (Researcher, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University [Washington, D.C.]) Sharon Louise Miller (January, 2000) (Director of Research, Center for the Study of Theological Education, Auburn Theological Seminary [New York, N.Y.]) James Charles Cavendish (August, 1997) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida [Tampa, Fla.]) Samuel Harold Reimer (January, 1997) (Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology, Crandall University [Moncton, N.B., Canada])
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Rev. Francisco José Carmona [Fernández] (January, 1994) (Profesor Titular, Facultad de Ciensias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad de Grenada [Spain]) Peter Craig Blum (May, 1993) (Director of Sociology and Social Thought, Hillsdale [Mich.] College) Edward P. Freeland (Princeton University; June, 1992) (Associate Director, Princeton Survey Research Center, Princeton [N.J.] University) John R. Gehm (January, 1991) (Executive Director, Restorative Justice, Restore [Sioux Falls, S.D.]) Rev. Edwin Ivan Hernández (August, 1989) (President, Adventist University of Health Sciences [Orlando, Fla.]) Donald S. Swenson (May, 1989) (Associate Professor of Behavioral Science to Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Royal University [Calgary, Alta., Canada]) Patricia Ann Wasely Lomire (May, 1986) (Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Minot [N.D.] State University)
REFERENCES
(References available upon request.)
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